DAY 565 - Don't Thrust Me Behind Your Back!

This newly designed key chains will be given to all members of ACiC/AI churches on the first Sunday of March (March 6, 2011). Please click this link to see a sample of my second blog to create a momentum for the launching of Discipler 123:
http://discipler123.blogspot.com/
You can also listen to my first podcast in this new blog now. Click now and you can hear my daily podcast in both English and Cantonese. I just posted the Cantonese version today (March 3)as a sample, the English version will start on March 6.




What is Discipler 123?
A campaign starting on the first Sunday of March for three months. It is for one Discipler gathering two friends to meet once a week to have devotion with them and encourage them to have daily devotion all through the three months from March through May.

Praise the Lord that we completed our 500 days/24 hours Prayer Campaign! We have a new link for you to sign for the new stage. You really need to join us now to pray! The easiest way is to take one hour slot for the whole week. We need you to join us! Trust in the power of prayers!

Please sign up for the 6th stage - 600 days
**NEW link for the 6th 100 days 24 hours prayer campaign(January 3 to April 12, 2011)

Today's Reading: 1 Kings 14
Please read 1 Kings 14 and listen to what the Lord Jesus Christ would like to tell you before reading my Spiritual Journal below. If you would like to learn a simple and good way of Daily Devotion method please read my “Count Down 5” from this blog. You may click this link directly for the method: Subject Shifting Devotion.pdf. (You may begin with a song to praise the Lord and complete you devotion by singing another praise song.)

Please click this link to worship with us - He Knows My Name

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXsiWoyjw60

Please click the links below to 1 Kings 14:

• Chinese: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1 Kings 14&version=CUV
• NIV: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1 Kings 14&version=NIV
• ESV: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1 Kings 14&version=ESV
• Message: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1 Kings 14&version=MSG

"I tore the kingdom away from the house of David and gave it to you, but you have not been like my servant David, who kept my commands and followed me with all his heart, doing only what was right in my eyes. You have done more evil than all who lived before you. You have made for yourself other gods, idols made of metal; you have provoked me to anger and thrust me behind your back."

1 Kings 14: 8-9

"However, as for you, I will take you, and you will rule over all that your heart desires; you will be king over Israel. If you do whatever I command you and walk in my ways and do what is right in my eyes by keeping my statutes and commands, as David my servant did, I will be with you. I will build you a dynasty as enduring as the one I built for David and will give Israel to you."

1 King 11: 37-38

God gave Jeroboam a chance to be a 'listen and obey' king but he missed it. God sent a prophet to him in his early days giving a prophecy to him that he would be a king. If I were Jeroboam, I would invite the prophet to help me and walked with me; but Jeroboam missed it. He did not contact the prophet at all until his son got sick; what he wanted from him was just like asking a fortune teller.

How many times have we wasted God's preparation for us just like Jeroboam? God wants to raise you up but you need to live out 'listen and obey'. The sad story of mankind is that after God raised us up, then we thrusted God behind our back!

Dear Lord Jesus,

Help me not to thrust you behind my back when I become successful. In Jesus name I pray . Amen.

Please click this link to worship with us - Change My Heart O God

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEtsHWFE6-w&feature=related

Prayer items today:

For ACiC/AI
Bishop: Rt. Rev. Silas Ng (Michelle)
Network Leader: Rev. Peter Klenner (Jenny)
Network Leadership Team: Rt. Rev. Silas Ng, Rev. Peter Klenner, Rev. Ed Hird (Janice), Rev. Simon Neill (Jo), Rev. Ken Bell (Sonya)
Bishop's Chaplain: Rev. Ed Hird (Janice)
Clergy Formation Advisor: Rev. Ken Bell (Sonya)
Administrator: Mrs. Zenia Cheng (Clarence)

Pray for one Rwanda and Anglican Mission bishop one day at a time:

The Rt. Rev. Dr. Doc Loomis (Ellen)

The Rt. Rev. Augustin Mvunabandi (Virginia)

Pray for one ACiC/AI church one day at a time:

St. Timothy’s, North Vancouver

Rector/Senior Pastor: Rev. Ken Bell (Sonya)

Twitter version:http://twitter.com/bishopsilasng

Welcome! The purpose of this blog is to encourage Christians to have daily devotion - a wonderful and intimate time with Jesus.

There are three reasons for you to use this blog as your daily devotion:

1. A healthy spiritual diet - One chapter of the Bible daily. We really need at least one chapter of Bible daily so that we are well fed.
2. A good example of Spiritual Journaling - What I have committed for 1,189 days(the Bible has 1,189 chapters) to write this daily post is not for teaching purposes but this is my daily spiritual journal - I write down what I hear from Jesus and how I experience His intimate relationship with me each day. I have launched a wide-spectrum research on daily devotion and have found out that there are less than 10% of Christians that are having daily devotion. Out of that 10%, many having daily devotion are doing so because of guilt (they know that they are Christians and need to have daily devotion and feel guilty if they don’t do that), duty (they need to fulfill their duty as a Christian) or study(lots of Christians primarily use their daily devotion as a time to study the Bible). I do pray and hope that you will make up your mind to have a relational daily devotion so that you can have an intimate time with Jesus. I pray that you will write your own spiritual journal as well.
3. An online discipler – One of the reasons that so many Christians do not have daily devotion is because they do not have a discipler. A discipler can help them build up this basic element of discipleship when they first become Christians. The best way for you is to have a discipler to walk with you for a certain period of time so that daily devotion become a good habit. Or, you may have a small group of two to three people to encourage and be accountable to each other so that you won’t stop your daily devotion. I offer myself as your online discipler to walk with you daily to enrich your spiritual journey. So, shall we start this journey with Jesus Christ our Lord now!

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• **NEW link for the 6th 100 days 24 hours prayer campaign (January 3 to April 12, 2011)
• Our 5th phase of 100 days of prayers (September 25, 2010 to January 2, 2011).
• Our 4th phase of 100 days of prayers (June 17 to September 24, 2010).
• Our 3rd phase of 100 days of prayers (March 9 to June 16, 2010).
• Our 2nd phase of 100 days of prayers (November 29, 2009 to March 8, 2010).
• Our 1st phase of 100 days of prayers:
• Part 2: 60 days (September 29 to November 28, 2009)
• Part 1: 40 days (August 20 to September 28, 2009)